Fair enough. I think it would be more accurate to say that you don’t care about the benefits of federation, rather than there not being any.

But it while you feel fine with the “current process” clearly from an end-user perspective, it’s worth considering how the process might harm you too indirectly. Some communities, especially niche ones, might not survive a migration. An enormous amount of information might eventually get lost if the old site dies or pivots to something that doesn’t retain all the content.

And then there’s all the things that can go wrong with giving all our data to a single entity. Maybe sometime in the future we find ourselves dependent on AI services and they go to shit. Now it’s not obvious that we can keep migrating every decade because only a select few tech giants have the big data required to create competing services. And that sucks because we’re the ones who generated it and gave it away.

Hopefully, the streamlining of the fediverse, which I agree needs to happen, will not be everyone signing on to the same instance, but rather the federation working great and the interfaces feeling so seamless that the average user feels like everything is in the same place without it really being so.